Cookbook awards season
Just as January and February are movie awards months with the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the Oscars so May and June are cookbook awards months. The season kicked off on Friday night with the prestigious James Beard…
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Alan Davidson
Bruce Palling - Food columnist for the Wall Street Journal Europe looks at the life of the late Alan Davidson and recalls some memorable meetings with him. Bruce has his own blog, Gastronenophile where you can read…
London eating
Although I now live on the opposite side of the world to my home city of London, I'm fortunate to get back often enough to still feel in touch. I don't tend to keep up to date while I'm away, so sometimes I find a new…
A very special dinner
Every so often we get to do something that is so special we can't believe it's really happening. I had that feeling this weekend when I had the privilege of attending a dinner cooked by two of the world's greatest chefs…
New registration and payment system
Today is a significant day for Eat Your Books - the beta sign has finally come off. It's taken longer than we thought - but that's the nature of software development. At the beginning of the year, we didn't realise we…
A new improved Eat Your Books
We have a new server!! Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by the changeover whilst the site was down, but hopefully, you'll think it was worth it. I won't go into the technical detail, but we have also made some…
Technology or cookbooks in the kitchen?
An interesting article by Sarah Dickerman on Slate.com as to whether the iPhone could take over from the cookbook in the kitchen. She concludes not, though does see the advantage of a digital shopping list on your…
Upcoming improvements on EYB
Thank you for all your feedback, we're so grateful to all those who take the time to write to us. We are still a beta website and there are areas of improvement to be made before we remove the beta from the logo. So…